Monday, October 14, 2013

Phobias

Phobias

And
the tyranny of Homosexuality…Don’t be an enabler.

By de
Andréa

October 14,
2013

In a past life I suffered from a Phobia
that although it has been a long time coming is now understood as PTSD (post-traumatic
stress syndrome), it eventually totally wrecked my marriage. I was in denial. A lot
of military people and people in law enforcement acquired this condition and
even some that have never been in the military. It has now become fairly normal to expect’
this condition from a severe combat experience, but it is not accepted as
normal behavior to the point that the one with the phobia and the rest of society
must just learn to live with it, just because it’s normal expected behavior under
the circumstances. I went through
several years of extensive psychotherapy and am still occasionally revisited by
my demons from the past, but I don’t necessarily have to live with the constant
flashbacks and the resulting unexpected anger and nightmares all the time.

Just a side note: please forgive me for the length of this article. But it is important to understand this. I
promise I won’t publish another article tomorrow, come on I didn’t publish one
yesterday either, and you have two days to digest this.

There are a myriad of phobias that
humans are tormented by every day all of which are, for the most part,
treatable, once one learns to face his/her demons and finds out that this isn’t
normal and one doesn’t have to give into to the fear and anxiety, because it is
not real, it is only ‘perceived’ in
one mind to be real no matter what it is.

Another example is an experience that I
had while in a military hospital. After undergoing surgery from a rather severe
injury, I became addicted to opioids. Later
in going through withdrawals from the drugs, specifically morphine I experienced
hallucinations. They say that when you
hallucinate you can experience your worst fears. My greatest fear was fear of
drowning even though I have had the experience of water boarding and lived. During my withdrawal hallucinations I really
believed I was drowning, even to the point of respiration arrest, I stopped
breathing altogether and became unconscious, and then of course being
unconscious I resumed breathing. The
point is that I perceived it as real.

So
why am I telling you all this? Please
bear with me because of all the hundreds of examples just like this there is
one, and only one, that despite the fact that this life debilitating phobia is
treatable, the one experiencing the condition as well as the rest of sociality,
has been forced to accept this Phobia as NORMAL!

“I was convinced I needed to be skinny
to look good in a bikini,” Emma told the U.K.’s Daily Mirror newspaper. “I
started obsessing about my weight and what I’d look like sunbathing. I was
convinced I was too heavy, so I started skipping meals and making myself sick
…”

Emma resembled an emaciated
concentration-camp survivor, but nevertheless the effect her anorexia had on
her mind and emotions was to make her see herself as disgustingly fat. We have
all heard the story’s and scratched our itching brains wondering how someone
could be so blind.

Now - let’s look into the mirror of
people suffering from another condition, that is increasingly featured in the
news and entertainment media, and for which special laws are now being passed
all over the country – namely, gender
dysphoria. That’s the new name for what used to be called gender identity disorder, referring to the plight of
transgender (or transsexual) people who so strongly identify with the opposite
sex that they often undergo major surgery in an attempt to change genders. As you
will soon see, this is just another phobia disorder and if you have been
programed to accept this as normal human behavior then you’ just as the one
with the disorder are in denial, and it will consume you just as it has
consumed the one with the disorder. You will have become an enabler.

“When I look in the mirror in the
morning, it’s a painful experience. … The immediate reaction I get from my
reflection is a feeling of very strong disassociation, accompanied by a kind of
shock, confusion, or mental jarring. I have the strong, gut-level sensation
that whoever is behind the mirror is not me,”says
one “trans” individual.

“Whenever I look in the mirror it’s
like I’m looking at a stranger or something,”says
another.

“Transsexuals,”explains
one commentator,“report
feeling out of place, feeling awkward, and to get others to understand their
inner struggle, transsexuals will ask typical people”: If you’re a
woman, imagine that every morning when you awaken and look in the mirror, you
see a man. And if you’re a man, imagine that when you awaken, you see a woman
in the mirror. That’s how a transsexual feels.
Can’t you just hear these people crying for help, and all we do it
enable them.

The human mind is an amazing thing.
Just like computers, they’re awesome when they work properly, but supremely
vexing when they don’t.

Yet there it is: Whether it’s
PDST or hallucinations or the anorexic or transgender individual staring
intently into the mirror and seeing the exact opposite of
reality, or homosexuality, or countless other people in similar straits
tormented from within, our minds are – to
put it inelegantly – capable of lying to us.

Indeed, tens of millions of Americans,
and more every year, are finding themselves in a place where, whether they
realize it or not, their own minds deceive them to the point of seriously
disrupting their lives.

Take OCD, or obsessive-compulsive
disorder, which currently afflicts one in 100 American adults (between 2 and 3
million), plus one in 200 children and teens (that’s another 500,000),
according to the National Institute of Mental Health. Sometimes I worry that I am an obsessive
compulsive writer I write books, essays articles…sometimes I would rather write
than eat, oh…I hope this doesn’t lead to anorexia, Thank the lord no ‘Fat
Chance of that’.

Here, from the International OCD Foundation,is
a vivid description of what OCD feels like from the inside: Imagine that your
mind got stuck on a certain thought or image …

Then this thought or image got replayed
in your mind, over and over again, no matter what you did …

You don’t want these thoughts – it
feels like an avalanche …

Along with the thoughts come intense
feelings of anxiety …

Anxiety is your brain’s warning system.
When you feel anxious, it feels like you are in danger. Anxiety is an emotion
that tells you to respond, react, protect yourself, And DO SOMETHING!

On the one hand, you might recognize
that the fear doesn’t make sense, doesn’t seem reasonable, yet it still feels
very real, intense, and true …

Why would your brain lie?

Why would you have these feelings if
they weren’t true? Feelings don’t lie … Do they?

Unfortunately,
sometimes they do…

How many Americans have problems
like these, where their thinking and feeling (or whatever lurks behind their
thinking and feeling) profoundly deceives them?

Fasten your seat belt, because in
addition to the 2-3 million with OCD, the National
Institute of Mental Health reports that almost 21 million
American adults have a mood disorder, 14.8 million adults have a major
depressive disorder, 5.7 million suffer from bipolar disorder, 2.4 million have
schizophrenia, 40 million have an anxiety disorder, 6 million have a panic
disorder, 7.7 million are dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder, 6.8
million have generalized anxiety disorder, 15 million have a social phobia
(fear of any situation where escape may be difficult, like traveling in a car,
bus or airplane) and another 19 million have some type of specific phobia
(marked, persistent fear and avoidance of a specific object or situation).

There are scores of different phobias, just
in case you don’t want to read all these, bear in mind that these are only the
As’, there are still Bs’ through Z’s.

The A’s range from ablutophobia (fear of washing or
bathing), to acarophobia (fear of itching or of the insects that cause
itching), achluophobia (fear of darkness), acrophobia (fear of heights),
aerophobia (fear of flying), aeronausiphobia (fear of vomiting secondary to
airsickness), agateophobia (fear of insanity), agraphobia (fear of sexual abuse),
agrizoophobia (fear of wild animals), algophobia (fear of pain), agoraphobia
(fear of open spaces or crowds), agyrophobia (fear of streets or crossing the
street), aichmophobia (fear of needles or pointed objects), amathophobia (fear
of dust), amaxophobia (fear of riding in a car), androphobia (fear of men),
anginophobia (fear of angina or choking), anthrophobia (fear of flowers),
anthropophobia (fear of people or society), aphenphosmphobia (fear of being
touched), apiphobia (fear of bees), apotemnophobia (fear of persons with
amputations), arachnophobia (fear of spiders), arithmophobia (fear of numbers),
arsonphobia (fear of fire), asthenophobia (fear of fainting or weakness),
astraphobia (fear of thunder and lightning), ataxophobia (fear of disorder or
untidiness), atelophobia (fear of imperfection), atychiphobia (fear of
failure), automysophobia (fear of being dirty) and autophobia (fear of being
alone or of oneself).

And those are just the As! B through Z spell out hundreds more. But what
all phobias have in common is a root in some early traumatic experience that
has generated a syndrome of unwanted, irrationally fearful thoughts and
feelings.

By the way, the mental health
statistics cited above, account for around half of Americans. This might make
you wonder if there is anybody left who is not afflicted by some kind of phobia,
or as least will be, at some time in their life.

Amputation of healthy organs ‘the new
normal’ All of these
conditions, whatever their symptoms or level of severity, are named and
described in the psychiatrists’ bible – the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
of Mental Disorders,” the most recent being the fifth edition (so-called
“DSM-V”) – and all are considered “pathological” (that is, “relating to, or
caused by, a mental condition or disease”) and are classified as “disorders.”

As I said earlier, all with one exception.

Ironically, one the most extreme
of all of these conditions – at least in terms of its preferred treatment,
which often involves the amputation of healthy body parts and whose sufferers
attempt suicide at an alarming rate – is for some reason in the process of
being de-pathologized, that is, it has been reclassified as normal.

Indeed, the recent renaming of gender
identity disorder as gender dysphoria, thanks to pressure from the powerful
LGBT lobby, means the condition itself is no longer considered abnormal or
“disordered,” but only the anxiety, caused by society, (that’s you, you are the
cause) that one may feel over it.

How, then, when today’s mental-health
trend is to categorize more and more problematic human behaviors as “disorders,”
does the mental state that craves having healthy body parts amputated in a
pathetic and ultimately impossible quest to change genders become magically
transformed into something “normal”?

“Being transgender no longer a
‘mental disorder’: APA,” announced
NBC Newslast December, along with other major news outlets:

The American
Psychiatric Association has revised its “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders” and it no longer lists being transgender as a mental
disorder, among other changes announced this past weekend.

Translation: If you think there’s something wrong
with people who want to amputate parts of their body, you’re intolerant, biased
in favor of Western culture and hung up on the outdated notion that there are
just two genders. If you were more multiculturally enlightened, you would
realize it is just your own prejudice and narrow frame of reference that is the
real problem here. In other words it isn’t the one with the disorder that needs help it’s the
rest of society…

Reality check: Transgenderism (or transsexualism) is
not normal my friend. In fact, it’s so abnormal and unnatural that a
staggeringly tragic 41 percent of all transgender individuals living in the
United States have attempted to commit suicide, according
to a 2010 study.If that is
normal then there must be something wrong with the rest of us that are not
trying to commit suicide.

What would we think if the “anorexia
rights lobby” (if such a thing existed) pushed relentlessly to de-pathologize
anexoria, proclaiming it perfectly normal for some girls, though in danger of
dying from starvation, to go on starving themselves so as to satisfy their inner feeling that they were fat? And all the rest of us would look at her skeletal
dying body and pretend that, yes she is FAT! And that is just normal…

The question, then, is why did the American Psychiatric Association give
in to activist pressure?

For the same reason the same
organization, under activist pressure, declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder
in 1973. After all, men wanting to have sex with men, and women with women, is
also profoundly disordered behavior – a dysfunction often rooted in early
flawed family relationships, early molestation and/or other trauma. That’s not just
my opinion; the psychiatric and psychological professions used to know this – and knew it well. That is, before it became
controversial, unpopular, politically incorrect, career-ruining, and –
increasingly – illegal to speak the truth
that homosexual attractions are evidence of a significant developmental problem, not an inborn identity.

Reclaiming reality and sanity.
Such “psychological factors,” while generally mentioned briefly, as
possible contributing factors, no longer seem to count that much anymore. More
to the point, even if such genuine causative factors are acknowledged by the
therapist, the therapy is almost always the same – drugs, drugs and more drugs.

Stop and think about this: People seek
out help from therapists because of troubling mental and emotional issues,
compulsions and addictions, powerful negative feelings and inner voices,
paranoia, depression, rage, wild mood swings, confusion and similar symptoms.
Other than the few with actual organic brain disease, these people need
self-understanding; they need help spotlighting the real causes of their
troubles; they need to become disentangled from and objective to their
troublesome inner world; they need to repent of their hates, and to forgive
those who have hurt them. They need genuine healing. Instead, they get drugs – drugs
that, at best, only mask symptoms, and come with fearsome side effects that
usually require even more drugs.

Islam is a mental and spiritual disorder
Consider for a moment how children in the Arab-Muslim Middle East
develop this “mental illness” of wannabe jihad martyrdom, something I know a
lot about after studying this hatful so-called religion for more than twenty
three years. How exactly do innocent little kids come to be possessed by such
overwhelmingly powerful emotions and beliefs that they’re willing to blow
themselves up while murdering innocent strangers – and thinking such a
despicable crime is the will of their god? Just how my friend does that happen?

If I suggested genetics or biochemical
imbalances were responsible, you would laugh wouldn’t you? The truth is, little jihadists are created
when, from an early age, they are continually indoctrinated, brainwashed, intimidated,
degraded, rewarded, tempted, lied to, punished, threatened and praised (for
reinforcement) – until their little developing minds and emotions are not their
own anymore. They have a new implanted identity, very different from the one
they were born with. They become programed robots with no mind of their own and
are susceptible to demonic control. Just
watch a beheading and tell me that’s not demonic. They are truly not born that way my friend.

So, if the forces in one child’s
home can transform him ‘so totally’ that,
when he looks in a mirror, he sees someone who feels like killing infidels and himself in a glorious “martyrdom operation,”
couldn’t the forces in another child’s home (perhaps much more subtle, but
nevertheless powerful) transform him or her into a person with feelings and
attractions he likewise was not born with – including homosexual or transgender
feelings? Many lesbians, as a matter of fact, confess they hated their cruel or
abusive father and therefore couldn’t bond to a man later in life. Why is this
so hard to understand?

But no matter. Fewer and fewer people care any more
about true causes and effects, about the real nature of things. Instead, we care about what we want to believe, what we want to be true, even if we are being lied to from
both ends – from the outside by deceitful politicians, activists and
so-called “experts,” and from “the inside” by our own deluded minds

As always, however, there is a price to pay for not caring about reality
and truth.

THE BOTTOM LINE: Burgeoning totalitarianism it the
result.

Today, the “gay rights movement”
has metastasized into a burgeoning form of totalitarianism. Legislation is
sweeping the country, outlawing counseling help for minors who want to overcome
unwanted same-sex attractions; decreeing (in
California and elsewhere) that boys and young men must be allowed to
use girls’ restrooms, locker rooms and showers if they identify with the
opposite sex (and vice versa); mandating pro-homosexual indoctrination of
5-year-olds; requiring the integration of open homosexuals into the military;
forcing same-sex marriage on the nation; criminalizing Christian businesspeople
for simply opposing homosexuality on moral and religious grounds; and much,
much more. It’s just beginning my friend.

We need to understand something
about this new sexual revolution: There is no end to it. Many thought it would
end with same-sex marriage, seemingly the crowning achievement of the gay
rights juggernaut. But suddenly, it seems, everything is now about “transgender
rights.” There’s a new prime-time TV
show coming that will portray a transgender teen as the most
sensible member of his family. Vice President “Crazy” Joe
Biden calls transgender discrimination“the civil rights issue of our
time.”

There is no end to the madness my friend, because madness has no end –
it’s a black dark hole with no bottom.

Most ironic and unfortunate of
all, this particular issue – this revolutionary sexual anarchy movement, which
more than any other ideology, including Marxism, Islam or atheism, well…maybe
not Islam, has the potential of
permanently corrupting our nation’s core “operating system”, called the family – it is the one issue that almost
everybody is afraid to confront.

Like Voldemort, the arch-villain so
feared by everyone in the “Harry Potter” stories that they “dare not speak his name,”
almost no one – not Democrats, not Republicans, not churches, not the media
(including Fox News which is partially owned by a Saudi Prince), not talk radio
(unless explicitly Christian conservative), not even the big alternative news
websites, with the exception of yours truly, and maybe the Christian news blog WorldNetDaily
– dares to speak of it.

But be warned my friend, intimidation
is the No. 1 tool of would-be tyrants like Obama, it is right out of Saul
Alinsky’s play book on ‘Community Organizing’. Not only can it make us shut up
from fear, it can – without our realizing it – eventually cause us to change
our own beliefs and side with the adversary, and we will never know what hit
us. Until it’s too late.

If you agree, please share these posts with your friends,
family and co-workers. The only way to defeat the lies and propaganda of
an evil government and its controlled media, is to spread the truth.

About Me

I am a first generation American. My ancestors immigrated from Europe, legally I might add. My education is the equivalent of two years of college. No degree, so if you find that I am grammatically challenged, please forgive me. I am however, very well read in philosophy, political science and American history. I write about many subjects, mostly political. Sometimes about what chaps my hide, or just to provoke thought. I have been accused of being a right wing Christian conservative extremist, so I am coming out of the closet. I confess, yes, I am. I believe that it will take the power of God and a lot of extreme people like myself to grab hold of the steering wheel of this country and take a sharp turn to the right in order to stop this great nation from being buried in liberal socialism and tyranny. I welcome your comments, positive or negative. You can e-mail me at writedeandrea@hotmail.com or leave a comment at the bottem of my articles.